My team is circling the drain. Win every Lincecum start and I am a .400 team in the other games.

18 games left. I need to win at least 11-12 of em. Don't think this squad has it in em. Spent too much on Lincecum, Hershiser, Dibble. Rest of my staff is atrocious playing in my bandbox stadium. Waste of a helluva lineup that is perfect for my stadium/division.

"It's like dating a woman who hates you so much she will never break up with you, even if you burn down the house every single autumn." ~ Chuck Klosterman on Browns fans relationship with the Browns

Big series tonight b/w me and FUDU. Him one game up on me for the WC with 12 to play.

Of course, no Lincecum (25-5) in this series. Larry Gura, Danny Cox in the first two. Gotta pray I find a way to Babe Ruth my way to a win in one of those before sending The Bulldog Orel Hershiser out for game three of the series.

Also ... for all the Strat geeks, highly reccomend this pool for the coming baseball season. A lot of fun.

Yep big one tonight, still an outside chance for me (both of us really) to steal the division but unlikely. We get to do this again on Thursday, if I can manage to win both series and gotribe can do me a solid maybe it comes down to the final night w/me v. moscratch (whom I am still not speaking to).

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"

I would've liked to make it back to .500, but 80-82 will do for a first try.

I built my team well for my home park by focusing on OBP and doubles guys over power hitters (45-36), but that made us weaker on the road.

Albert Belle was more of a homer-or-strikeout guy than I expected him to be.

I built my bullpen wrong. It seems like the strat manager is more willing to let good relievers go 3 or 4 innings than "real" managers are, and conversely less likely to use ROOGYs or LOOGYs. I'll have to keep that in mind next time.

It seems like a $6M outfielder puts up much better offense than a $6M middle infielder (with good defense). It seems to me like if you want a defensive infield, you either want to go for the top dollar guys, or just forgo offense for the position and get somebody in the $2-3M dollar range.

My one platoon was mediocre. I'm not sure how efficient a platoon is dollarwise...maybe in a high dollar league they would be more effective.

Wow. Can't beleive that happened. Crazy way to end a crazy season. Sorry Swerb? FUDU, I expect a case of Great Lakes.

Finished 80-82 despite scoring 49 runs more than my opponents. I...don't get it. Run prevention is overrated. I gave up 40 fewer runs than anyone else in the league, still couldn't crack .500. Just like in real life, the East was a beast of a division which didn't help. Regardless, a lot of fun. Lets get these playoffs over with so we can get the other league going!

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves-----Abe Lincoln

Let me tell you, if any of you douchebag empty headed stuffed suit nanny politicians tries to fuck with my bacon, I’m going after you like a crazed chimpanzee on bath salts. -----Lars

I went to bed all pissed of, Buckeyes blow it, another strat disappoinment, still cold out, house tore apart. Only reason I even checked strat this morning was b/c I was moving the tab on my browser out of my main line of sight.

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"

gotribe31 wrote:Wow. Can't beleive that happened. Crazy way to end a crazy season. Sorry Swerb? FUDU, I expect a case of Great Lakes.

Finished 80-82 despite scoring 49 runs more than my opponents. I...don't get it. Run prevention is overrated. I gave up 40 fewer runs than anyone else in the league, still couldn't crack .500. Just like in real life, the East was a beast of a division which didn't help. Regardless, a lot of fun. Lets get these playoffs over with so we can get the other league going!

Excuse me Al, but there's only one team that took a dive to get FUDU in...err...I mean, tried like hell. FUDU should send that case over to me, I think.

Personally I hope the sportingnews/strat site are stricken with a horrific virus that spreads to each playoff team's lap top/home computer and then to the playoff team's owner in a historic machine-to-man virus.

After the OSU game I crawled into my usual post-loss shell avoiding all media, then decided to check the Strat Thread before bed. The site would not load and I was curious if Rich said "Fuck It" and unplugged the whole site. I thought someone better check on him...

After my bullpen carried me the whole second half, I'm done in by a middle reliever coming in to pitch in the late innings in two losses despite my efforts to tab him as persona non grata in the settings/strategy pages.

paulcousineau wrote:After my bullpen carried me the whole second half, I'm done in by a middle reliever coming in to pitch in the late innings in two losses despite my efforts to tab him as persona non grata in the settings/strategy pages.

Best of luck boys, it's been fun...

Yeah, Hal does do some silly things. Hal attempted 23 steals with my slow-ass catcher. 23! He got caught 13 of them. When I had a reliever go on the DL for a short time I picked up a 500K arm who then proceeded to pitch the next 287 innings straight, or so it seemed.

Once you get your pen dialed in for HAL do not mess with it. I tried to tweak it near the end and as you saw I got knocked out of first. I did however get Eck's prime spot figured early and got awesome use out of him, I don't think 120+ innings in 80 mil happens much with him.

BTW mo since we're talkin pitching, which one of the SP's on the only staff to boast four 15+ game winners should I start in game 1?

Hello?

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"

That's the thing that pisses me off as once Ron MF'in Taylor blew the first game for me, I changed the settings to prevent him ever seeing a game. He, of course, came in late in Game 7 with the game tied and promptly gave up 4 runs.

Yeah an outcome like that after out hitting the opponent is frustrating (also strangely odd that your 3 errors played 0 factor in the score), part of the reason for that can be attributed to my cards (even though it's a roll of the dice thing in the end), if you notice my pitchers cards give up the fewest HRs, I think a total of 3 possible 1-8, 1-5 & 1-1 from my SPs.

Also with as often as your guys get on base, and move around the bases, with just 1 masher in the middle of your line up you'd own me in this series and you'd probably win 5-10 more games in the reg season, IMHO. IMO the margin for success or failure is smallest with a small ball team.

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"